The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 19, 1936, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1936. GABLE, HARLOW L0Y, IN FIRST * PLAY TOGETHER Comedy, Drama and Song at Coliseum in “Times Square Playboy” Jean Harlow became Clark Ga- ble's secretary, and Myrna Loy, his | wife, as cameras started turning {on Iiunt Stromberg's production of| ‘Wif> versus Secretary” at Metro- Golc 'yn-Mayer, which opens to- morrow at the Capitol Theatre The new picture unites the three popular stars for the first time. Gable and Miss Loy having recent- ly traveled from vacationing in op- posite ends of the world—Santiag Chile, and Budapest, Hungar join Miss Harlow. The union of the famous trio| brings to the screen Faith Baldwin's » TU Midnight Preview Tonight—1:15 A. M. Sunday Matinee—2 P. M. THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU LUCKY CLARK, ALWAYS IN THE MIDDLE! Caught in the crossfire of two } beautiful women in love with “ him...and does he love it! It’s the century’s battle of hearts... and the year’s gayest romance! THEATRE. o\ Happiness| ahead ... with your 3 screen favoritesat “TOY MAKER” BE PRESENTED MONDAY NIGHT Christmas Production Giv- en by School Students Is Free to Public Brycesan Trehanne’s Christmas operetta “The Toy Maker,” is to be | presented free of charge on Mon- | day night, December 21 at 8 o'clo in the grade sch 11 the people in Jun like to attend. Under of Miss Ruth Coffin the music of the public schools having been working for many weeks to make this play 1 who would the direction students in Jlll)l‘."il: classes cne of the outstanding productions | cf the year. “The Toy Maker” lives in his shop with his old mother and gets more pleasure out of making toys at their best! best-selling novel of the same title, which appeared serially in a nation- al magazine. It tells the story of| {the dividing lin2 separating a man’s |office from hs home, wth Gable,| as the husband, facng the problem ' |of choosing between his wife, My- rna Loy, and his secretary, Jean Harlow. Interwoven is a picture of big business methods, «s practiced in the high pressure world of modern finance. With Warren William in the lead- ing role, “Times Square Playboy. Warner Bros. comedy, sprinkled with drama, romance and song,| opens at the Coliseum theatre to- MOrrow. The picture, based on George M. Cohan’s Broadway success, “The Home Towners,” is said to be ideally suited to the comedy talents of Warren William. It marks the sec- ond picture in which June Travis, daughter of Harry Grabiner, Vice President of the Chicago White Sox, has the leading feminine role, her first being “Ceiling Zero.” Miss Travis also sings a song specially written for the production by M. K. Jerome and Joan Jas- myn Barton MacLane, noted film “bad man,” has a comedy role in this picture, being Willlam’s friendly Butler, valet and athletic train- er. Fene Lockhart and his Kathleen Lockhart are the small towners around whom the plot of the picture revolves. Others in the cast include Dick Purcell, in the role of Miss Travis' brother, Gran- i ville Bates and Dorothy Vaughan, Dalle Aliska her parents, and Craig Reynolds, l‘lmp’ire New William’s rival in love R RSN, RELIEF CREW WILL EXPLORERISTO % iDL TRIP TONIGHT at Yakutat next week, according to The Explorer was loading this|the U. §. Forest Service. Assistant Vessel Replaces Norland for Voyage—Carries afternoon, and is due to sail from! Regional Forester Wellman Hol- Juneau today midnight. Passen- prook said John Maurstad would Arctic Cargo H | | a CLARK GABLE JEAN HARLOW MYRNA LOY Wife » Secret. From Faith Baldwin’s Cosmopolitan Magazine novel read by millions with MAY ROBSON - GEORGE BARBIER JAMES STEWART « HOBART CAVANAUGH Directed by CLARENCE BROWN Produced by Hunt Stromberg 4 wife, LAST TIMES TONIGHT in % DELL Al LET IT ME FARMER I Regular Kids Cartoon News y's freight| rer will Arctic for about Besides Elmer for Skagway, the Exp ry all cargo off the Haines, but none for Skagway forty tons in all gers aboard the Explorer will be/pe dispatched to Yakutat on the Elmer Jakeway and B. F. Kane, Tallapoosa tomorrow, when that both making the round trip. | vessel plans to leave with 40 tons The U. S. C. G. S. Tallapoosa is|of freight for that point, to serve loaded and ready to sail for Yaku- a5 foreman and to organize a na- tat tomorrow morning. tive crew of from 10 to 12 in Yak- The Arctic sailed from Juneau|ytat. The project undertaken will last evening at 5 o'clock and was extend the trail from the ceme- reported on the Gulf of Alaska,|tary at Yakutat to Ankau river, bound for Cordova, at 8:30 o'clock |5 distance of about three miles. this morning. | e ————— S ' The “Jones’” and the “Smiths” Tonight is going to be a big night (will be at the TERMINAL tonight. ! at the TERMINAL. ady —adv. Replacing the Norland, a larger , the Explorer, Capt. sen, has been chartered by the Jakeway Distributing Co., to sail to Haines and Skagway. B o o T S BAILEY’S CAFE Now Operating Under NEW MANAGEMENT "WE AIM TO SATISFY OUR CUSTOMERS” GIVE US A TRIAL! ® Finest Food @ Excellent Menus 2 e e I | he Christmas than anything else. One day as he looks out of the window es a beautiful princess with whom he falls deeply in love. His Trumpeters—Byron Miller, George Harold Hansen. ling the program the will come down the Oh Come Rock the This carol dates century when it wandering min- Al Cor nder, a choir aisle singing radle for Him back to the 17t} was sung by the s old. Production Staff Miss Ruth Coffin. 1t Directors — Mary Jean ighton, Betty Wilcox, Betty cay or McN W panists—Ruth Corrine Duncan, Allen, E Bob Haw- me Designer—Mrs. Web: Bothw Fuku Dar Corrine Art Gudren | Edit) Beatrice Ett stants Fukuyama, ume A 1. Mary ing Coaches—Pat Hu Duncan ners — John Clausen, inthers. Betty Wil kins, Helen Hildre, Lou- Phyllis Jenne, A -Clara Hansen Men—Lewis Taylor, Charles ceiricians — Leonard Lowell, d Aiken. rty Man—Joe Smith, Tom ys become jealous and while he sleeps they become alive and play all kinds of tricks on him. The princess becomes with the toys when the disgusted emperor {sends forth a proclamation that te | will bestow his daughter’s hand upon the toy maker who succeeds in making the best toy in the king- dom in order to please the fancy | of his spoiled son the prince. Sc cm-{ ly the maker the toy: visit the rests. A large cast has been chosen with double casting for all the leadi characters. Toy maker, princess, and mother are from the high school glee club, while members of the grade school make up the remain- der of the cast students experience in the produc- princess goes to the toy workshop to break up all and on the outcome of this main plot of the tion of a piay, high school students | assisted in the directing and coach- ing of the younger players. The pl is to be produced by the following Cast Best Doll — Doris Betty Nordling Rag Doll—Joanne er Wooden Soldier - Bob Phillips. Clown—Bob ling Toy Maker—Richard Jackson Herald—Hallie Rice Old Woman—Mary nice Lovejoy Princess—Sybil ine Torkelson The Emperor The Prince- McEachran Erwin, June P Robert Satre, Scott, Rodney Nord- Stewart, Ber- Godfrey, Kather- Jimmy Gla Edward Wood Tree Dancers—Norma Burford, Jackie Hawkes, Lois Schmitz, Invald Varness, Doreen Hunke, Dick Krane, Bonnie Klein, Nedford Zenge Astrid Varness, Franklin Dufresne. Clock Dancers Isabel Parsons, Betty Mills, Marjory Snell, Pauline Petric! Verna Mae Gruber, Lila Einclair, Barbara MacSpadden Thea Hansen, Patricia Berg, Doro- thy Wilms, Beryl Marshall, Jirdis Winthers. Four Leaf Clovers—Margaret Gia- conas, Doris Gridley, Betty Bonnet, Willane Roff. Soldiers—Lee Lucas, James John- | son, George Wamsley, Leroy Vestal Chee Herman, Virgil Anderson Axel Neilsen. | Herald's Attendants—Eddie Neil- sen, Carl Click. Mammy Doll—Margaret Rands. Dainty Doll—Beverley Leivers. Regular Girl—Shirley Davis. Toy Chorus — Eugene Crothers, Dick Clithero, Lois Schmitz, Lo Davis, Mae Barnesson, Richard Krane, Maxine Nostrand, Adrian Glasse, Pat Brewer, Helen Anderson. Doreen Heinke, Bonnie Klein, Jac- queline Schmitz, Mary Jukich. Delphine Furuness, Astrid Va ness, Anabel Hagerup, Erna Me Margaret Femmer, Mary Tubbs. Irene Williams, Franklin Dufresne Lois Allen, Charlotte Soule, Nedford Zenger, Lorraine Johnson, Harold Bloomquist, Lew Williams, Ingvaid F., Mary Jacobson Emma Neil- son, Roy Brown, Erling Osborne Marian Hussey, Eddie Nelson, S story | In order to give the| Property Mistress—Beatrice Pri- |mavera, Make-U] | Ann Mor Publicity—Byron Miller. HOLDEN FLIES T0 HOONAH AND RETURN TODAY Pilot Alex Holden, in the Mar- ine Airways Fairchild, made a flight to Hoonah and return today Holden went out empty at 11:55 |this morning and returned to Ju- neau this afternoon at 1:40 o'clock with Miss Susie White, and Mr nd Mrs. Steve Kane. Holden carried mail both ways on the flight Leaving Juneau this afternoon at 15 and returning at 3 o'clock Holden made charter flight tc Oliver Inlet. P — Miss Helen Parrott 2 - FOOD SHORTAGE FAGES GERMANS Resources of Nation Nearly Depleted — Crisis Threatened BERLIN, Dec. 19.—Germany to- day ‘stood face to face with one of the gravest food shortages in years. The nation is so close to deplet- ing the resources of both food and money that officials expressed fear they will not be able to find an adequate solution, A crisis is expected by April. Further stringencies are imposed on the German houscholds to pre- serve the dwindling food supplics. It was disclosed today that new ra- tion cards on butter and bread have been issued .- APPRECIATE ALASKANS AT PORTLAND SESSION Expressing appreciation for Al- aska representation at the Port- land session, a letter was received today by Mayor I. Goldstein from Harry K. Coffey of the Northwest Aviation Planning Council pro- gram Committee. Mr. Coffey ex- pressed on behalf of the convention special pleasure in the privilege of having Chief Engineer Tke P. Ta lor and Representative-elect Vic- tor Ross at the Portland meeting. Mr. Coffey said the conference was sure to result in “assistance to Al- a in her struggle for aviation development.” - Give “Holeproof” Hosiery. Jones - Stevens “Where Fashion Reigns” OUR GIFT SELECTION IS STILL COMPLETE ALWAYS MODERATELY PRICI Store Rem ains Open D! Evenings Until 9 0’Clock For Convenience of Christmas Shoppers Helen White Christmas Looms for Juneau; More Snow Forecast SUNDAY . MONDAY THEATRE TUESDAY A white Chr Juneau today U Me Howard J. Thompson fore snow for tonight, turning and clearing tomorrow From 4 p. m today 5:8 inche t city, bring since Decem The V ot lis about ‘X\(l\\' The snow is univer Alaska omed for rologist more colder | { o terday of W ve to noon fell in Bubbling with howling comedy! It's an absorbing romance that only George M. Cohan couid he t fal 9.7 inches. 8:5 inches ated ther on the ground I o D 5 SIMMONS RUNS ¢ INTO SNOW ON HOP BACK HERE | /AAT Pilot Brings in Full| assenger Load from t | | | | After remaining overnight at | » Sitka, Pilot Sheldon Simmons took joff with three passengers in the Alaska Air Transport Nugget at 10 lock this merning for Chichagof, = rere he picked up three more pas- ors Simmons left Chichagof at noon, |but ren into a snow storm which forced him to land at Lake Flor- ience, where he and his passengers stayed in the new Forest Service cabin for an hour, before taking off again for Juneau Simmons arrived at Juneau this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock The plane carried mail both di- rections Passengers to mons were: nes Dohs, Al Parfait Cosm Miss C Williams, w ment Hospital here. From Chichagof—O. George Snyder, and E nieuth, fl%spnndfifif Man Takes_ Own Life TLE, Dec. 19 Clarke, 31, of Pendleton, Ore., who shot himself on a downtown street Thursday night, after telling a curb- side Christmas tree vendor he was despondent the death of hi wife and child, died in a hospital here today. e \ with A WARREN WILLIA JUNE TRAVIS BARTCN MacLANE Warner-First National Picture Jun S u with Sim- n tka—Mrs. Ag- L representative for and her daugh- ne Dohs; and Irene 10 entered the Govern- Al Desert Death It’s Easy to Remember B. Tweedt, Floyd Han- Fox News "ATCH MONDAY'S AD FOR THE SEASON'S BIG AWARDS Caol hee Murder of Dr. Harrington ALSO Great Air Mystery News arls LAST TIMES e TONIGHT FRIGIDAIR eSS MADE ONLY BY GENERAL MOTORS ANNOUNCING! ARRIVAL OF NEW SHIPMENT RIGIDAIR Now on Display in Our Showroom W.P. Johnson Phone 17 . Them Today! s IO RSO ERROORR